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Addresses Asian American literature by women to explore and explode the sedimented and solidified meanings we have created about Asian American and dirt through dialogues that not only cross disciplinary and institutional formations and borders, but also question the very borders and territories upon which these arguments may be founded.

An introduction to the study of biological, osteological, and botanical remains on archaeological sites.

Introduction to designing an archaeological project, in both academic and contract contexts.

Focuses on religion and the influence of gender. This title demonstrates the ways in which a male driven ideology has produced a religion focused on death, discouraging any attention to the improvement of life on earth. It offers thoughts that advocate a collective change of view.

This balanced textbook looks at emerging religions through the lenses of history, psychology, sociology, law, theology, and counseling. The Second Edition is updated throughout and includes a new foreword by J. Gordon Melton.

An ethnography and examination of a new wave of Pentecostalism in Canada and the US.

Offers insight into the processes of migration and transnationalism from an anthropological perspective. This book analyzes macro and micro approaches to migration theory, utilizing fieldwork in Portugal and many other countries. It is suitable for instructors and researchers in anthropology, race and ethnic studies, and immigration studies.

Chronicles the transformation of the holistic health movement as it increasingly influences the delivery of health care in America. The author describes the battle for legitimacy by alternative therapeutic practitioners, and the increasing interest by the biomedical profession in the possibilities of a complementary and integrative medical system.

A sociology textbook/mystery novel, that allows students to join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a fresh area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory.

Considers the interface between the social institutions of gender and Western medicine. This book offers a distinct feminist viewpoint to analyze issues of power and politics concerning physical illness.

Collection of provocative essays on how to improve cultural resource management practice by the leading consultant in the field.

Offers an interpretation of identity formation for second-generation immigrants in America. This book provides an analysis of Mexican American women in higher education. It reveals the processes by which they negotiate ethnic, gender, and class identities with Mexican immigrant parents and with their university communities.

Examining gender roles in social movements, this title shows how liberation struggles are viewed through women's eyes and how gender affects women's mobilization, strategies, and outcomes in social movement organizations. It is a suitable text to introduce a sophisticated view of race and gender into social movement courses.

An overview of the central themes of women's studies, suitable for introductory reading in undergraduate courses or for a general audience's introduction to the meaning of feminism and its relevance as a progressive force in society.

An anthology of empirical studies of Asian Americans' ethnic or pan-ethnic identities, examining ethnic attachments among second-generation Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, Korean Americans, Chinese and Japanese Americans.

This introduction to conducting life history research shows that the process is now one of mutuality, empathy, sensitivity and caring. The book carries the reader through the steps of life history research, from conceptualizing the project to the various means of presenting the results.

This text traces the history of anthropology and anthropological theory, and argues for the use of a scientific, behavioural-based approach to the understanding of human culture known as cultural materialism.

In this spellbinding book, these scholars offer tantalizing evidence that the First Lady of the Air and her copilot Fred Noonan landed on a deserted tropical island but perished before they could be rescued.

The entrance of Native Americans into the world of cultural resource management is forcing a change in the traditional paradigms that have guided archaeologists, anthropologists, and other CRM professionals. This book examines these developments from tribal perspectives and articulates native views on the identification of cultural resource.

One night, anthropologist Cathy Winkler awoke from a deep sleep to discover a rapist standing by her bed. For the rest of that night, she lived a woman's worst nightmare as she was repeatedly raped and beaten by the stranger. This work chronicles her story of triumph over adversity.

This is a study of a gay community, a narrative of personal development and change and an exploration of the use of friendship in conducting research. The study explores sexuality, marriage, lifestyles, and the meanings of friendship.

Offers professionals within the field of cultural resource management (CRM) practical advice on dealing with traditional cultural properties (TCPs).

A study of Alaskan indigenous communities. It explores the relationship between land and education. It reveals how Euro-American institutions attempt to redefine indigenous understandings of land and spirituality to make them conform to those in the dominant society. It proposes educational agendas that are components of native sovereignty.

Argues that we are caught in a collective illusion about the nature of modern technology that prevents us from imagining solutions to our economic and environmental crises other than technocratic fixes.

Covers traditional anthropological fieldwork techniques and applies them to contemporary applied research problems. This book shows how ethnographic work can be accomplished in a matter of weeks. It is suitable for fieldworkers in anthropology and sociology.

States that karaoke creates its own culture, while reflecting much about the wider culture and the place of popular music as a media form. This book presents an observation on the external behavior of deejays, performers, and audience and an intimate portrait of the emotional rollercoaster that is the internal life of a karaoke singer.

Description, based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of the change in the gendered division of labor during the Neolithic agricultural revolution.

This text presents Marvin Harris' view on the nature of culture, and offers a materialist perspective on contemporary issues including the IQ question and the fall of communism.

Reflects the various changes in the study of gender and archaeology. This title covers issues such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy. It also covers the roles of women and men in such areas as human origins, the sexual division of labor, kinship and other social structures, state development, and ideology.

Lays out for archaeological practitioners the theory behind, and applications of, ground-penetrating radar as a non-invasive method of subsurface prospection. This work describes the technology, the equipment, the analysis and interpretation necessary to produce usable results and examples from GPR projects throughout the world.